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New research estimates probability of mega-earthquake in the Aleutians
Science Daily ^ | 5/13/2016 | University of Hawaii at Manoa

Posted on 05/15/2016 7:07:07 PM PDT by JimSEA

A team of researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) published a study this week that estimated the probability of a Magnitude 9+ earthquake in the Aleutian Islands--an event with sufficient power to create a mega-tsunami especially threatening to Hawai'i. In the next 50 years, they report, there is a 9% chance of such an event. An earlier State of Hawai'i report has estimated the damage from such an event would be nearly $40 billion, with more than 300,000 people affected.

Earth's crust is composed of numerous rocky plates. An earthquake occurs when two sections of crust suddenly slip past one another. The surface where they slip is called the fault, and the system of faults comprises a subduction zone. Hawai'i is especially vulnerable to a tsunami created by an earthquake in the subduction zone of the Aleutian Islands.

"Necessity is the mother of invention," said Rhett Butler, lead author and geophysicist at the UHM School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST). "Having no recorded history of mega tsunamis in Hawai'i, and given the tsunami threat to Hawai'i, we devised a model for Magnitude 9 earthquake rates following upon the insightful work of David Burbidge and others."

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: alaska; aleutian; aleutianislands; aleutians; earthquakes; hawaii; tsunami
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To: UCANSEE2

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

Try that - it’s what I have in my favorites listing.


21 posted on 05/17/2016 11:11:13 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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To: CyberAnt

When I lived in the hills in San Mateo, I saw a detailed fault map while doing research, and my neighborhood was right on top of a little known fault that ran perpendicular to the San Andreas fault, which was a mile or so to the west.

I was kinda hoping that one would go next.


22 posted on 05/17/2016 11:49:39 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: CyberAnt

Thanks for the link.

Did you try EQ 3D ? It’s about 1 million times better than that link.


23 posted on 05/19/2016 7:05:57 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Well, I just use the link for general information; I don’t study the stuff.


24 posted on 05/20/2016 7:59:43 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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